It's time to register for the 2010 Australian Climate Action Summit. Sat 13 March – Mon 15 March, ANU, Canberra. Last year’s - first ever - Australia-wide Climate Action Summit saw hundreds of people come from hundreds of Climate Action Groups (CAGs) from around Australia to talk, discuss and share ideas, and plan for a return to a safe climate. In the year of a federal election after Copenhagen how do we move forward? Participants will learn important skills for campaigning, lobbying, engaging the media and community, building their local group, taking direct action and more. Registration payments are voluntary but are needed to help cover the costs of organising the summit. Groups also have the option to donate to help support the event - see the website for more details. Registrations due by Friday 26 Feb. $10-15 pp per day - unwaged and $25-30 pp per day - waged. Climate Summit 2010

Support the crew working hard to stop a radioactive uranium mine less than 25kms from Alice Springs and hear some great music. As part of the campaign, local outfit the 'Super Raelene Bros' have teamed up with Indigenous elders 'the Little Sister's Collective' - to record a catchy tune 'Wiya! Angela Pamela'. Wiya! has made it to no. 1 this week on the Triple J Unearthed charts, from no. 59 the previous week. Wiya! Angela Pamela could get the No Alice Uranium Mine campaign onto the national stage. Here's how to help: register at TripleJ Unearthed (registering is free), search for ' wiya ', and play, rate and review the song. You can also download the song for free. For more info on the Angela Pamela campaign you can visit www.alec.org.au. The Arid Lands Environment Centre's vision of 'Healthy Futures for Arid Lands and Peoples' is seriously threatened by this mine. With your support the rising tide of public opposition will ensure this dangerous mine never goes ahead.

Pants to Poverty! If you want the funkiest and most ethical underwear out there then look no further. Certified to the max, Pants to Poverty pants are Fairtrade and completely pesticide free. They work directly with thousands of Indian cotton farmers and assist them to free themselves from pesticides, debt and suicide. We will have 5 GREEN pairs of Pants to Poverty underwear to give away to the first 5 people who e-mail us with the correct answer to the following question: “What is the colour of the Indian cotton farmer’s underwear on the Pants to Poverty site.” Check it out at: www.pantstopoverty.com.au Don’t miss the Pants to Poverty crew at the St Kilda Festival on 14 February and at the Sustainable Living Festival 19 to 21 February.

The conservation group Sea Shepherd says its ship the Bob Barker has been intentionally rammed by a Japanese whaling vessel off Antarctica on Saturday. Sea Shepherd says four Japanese harpoon ships were circling the Bob Barker because it was actively blocking the slipway of the Nisshin Maru - the Japanese whaling fleet's factory ship. Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson says the Yushin Maru 3 then intentionally rammed the Bob Barker, saying the Japanese vessel "slammed its stern right into the stern end of the Bob Barker, cutting a 3-foot long, by four-inch wide gash in the hull." The Sea Shepherd group said in a statement that no-one had been injured in the crash, which happened about 300 kilometres off Cape Darnley in the Australian Antarctic Territory. Welding crews are working to repair the damage, which the group says is a deep gash to the starboard side of the vessel. In early January the Japanese security ship Shonan Maru No. 2 deliberately rammed and caused catastrophic damage to the Sea Shepherd trimaran Ady Gil which is now out of action. Sea Shepherd

Now is a crucial time in the campaign to protect red gums along the Murray. The NSW Government is moving in the right direction towards implementing the outcomes promised in December. But there has still been no final decision on the details, and if we don’t see new legislation in Parliament in March then the outcomes will be at risk. That is where the Federal Government comes into play. They can act in concert with the NSW Government to make Red Gum National Parks a reality. Please take action now to urge the Federal Government to do its part to save these national treasures (you don't need to live in NSW to help). Click here to send an email to key Federal Cabinet Ministers. Prime Minister Rudd doesn’t have an email address, but you can go direct to his website and add a comment via a form.

Beyond Zero Emissions have launched a briefing paper detailing the potential of ‘Baseload’ solar power to replace Australia's unsustainable reliance on coal. Beyond Zero Emissions

You are invited to the launch of a new alliance campaign, The Transition Decade. The campaign aims to help build greater collaboration among groups and individuals who are deeply concerned about the growing climate emergency. The launch is being held by a number of environment groups and will be taking place as part of the Sustainable Living Festival on the 14th February 12pm-3pm at the Melbourne Town Hall Transition Decade